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LITTLE BAY, Montserrat — This tiny Caribbean island made headlines twice in its history. Once in 1979, when former Beatles record producer George Martin built a famous recording studio here, and a second time when the island's dormant volcano erupted and consumed much of Montserrat. Martin first fell in love with Montserrat in 1977 while visiting with his wife. Two years later he opened AIR studios. Over the next decade this little bump on the horizon saw the kind of superstars you would expect to see in neighboring St. Barts. Unfortunately the party came to a tragic end on July 18, 1995, when Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano, after remaining tranquil for more than...

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